"Balance is a Myth" with Startup Parent, CEO/Founder Sarah Peck

<p><span class="colour sh-color-grey sh-color">Sarah K Peck is the founder and CEO of<span class= "sh-color-grey sh-color"> </span></span><a href= "http://www.startuppregnant.com/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer">Startup Parent</a><span class= "colour sh-color-grey sh-color"> and the host of<span class= "sh-color-grey sh-color"> </span></span><a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-startup-pregnant-podcast/id1289880441" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Startup Parent Podcast</a><span class="colour sh-color-grey sh-color">, an award-winning podcast featuring women in entrepreneurship, business, and parenting.</span></p> <p><span class="colour sh-color-grey sh-color">Sarah is also the founder of <a href= "https://startupparent.com/wise-womens-council-community-mastermind/"> The Wise Women’s Council</a>, an annual leadership program for women to come together honestly while navigating the challenges of working and parenting. </span></p> <p>Sarah’s professional career started in environmental psychology and the design of environments. She pursued a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design. In 2011, Sarah began consulting with Y-Combinator backed startups, and launched her own consultancy in 2013.</p> <p>Today, she’s the CEO and founder of Startup Parent, a company focused on the narratives we share (and the ones we don’t share) about work, parenting, and motherhood.</p> <p>Sarah's mission is to tell new, truthful stories of what motherhood is actually like in America. To connect people to new ideas, to each other, and back to themselves. </p> <p>On this episode we tackle:</p> <ul> <li>Leadership & Business: the pain she wanted to solve with Startup Parent, the inspiration behind creating the Wise Women's Council, the need for support for working parents</li> <li>Parenting & Motherhood: how to make parent friends, letting go of the "balance" myth, accepting motherhood is